We the people of the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity ...

Accession number: 
PML 16504.1
Published: 
[Philadelphia : s.n., Aug. 6, 1787]
Description: 
7 leaves.
Credit: 
Purchase; Pierpont Morgan; 1907.
Notes: 

"The first draft of the report of the Committee of Five of the Federal Convention. Printed, for use of members, in an edition of sixty copies, on one side of seven leaves, only."--Evans.
Caption title.
Imprint supplied by Evans.
Sheets measure 37 x 24 cm.
With engraved portraits of Baldwin, Few, and Walton (2).

Binding: 
Disbound. In flat case with related PML and MA items measuring 54 cm. Previously bound in 3/4 red morocco lettered: Draft Constitution.
Provenance: 
Abraham Baldwin's copy with his ms. notes throughout. Armorial bookplate: Charles C. Jones, Jr.
Department: